Joe Noonan lives in the ocean. Well, he fishes, swims and takes people out to swim with wild dolphins every chance he gets. His entire life is consumed with his number one passion - dolphins. I told him he ought to share his ga-zillion photos with the world on a regular basis, and through more than just his website. So we came up with “Love from the Sea,” a weekly photo of the dolphins, fish and sea creatures he swims with and his life in the ocean. It’s free. …

Email letters with inspiration and insight hit my mailbox every day. But this one came around again for the third or fourth time in a year and I decided I really liked it, so I’m posting it here. I don’t know who the author is, but would be happy to link or whatever if anyone knows. Meanwhile, enjoy. There’s a message for all of us here. Everyone is struggling with something. Sometimes it takes a story like this to remember that:
Cheyenne
“Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!” My father …

“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.” ~Sam Llewelyn
When I first read Sam Llewelyn’s quote about gardens it kind of threw me, but he’s right. Amidst all the growing and greenery is death - and lots of it. It’s what life in the garden is about - reproduction, life and death. There are the hard-shelled wings of black beetles that my skink (a lizard) leaves scattered throughout the garden. I don’t see him feeding - only the undigested carnage of his work …

Bear Quints….once in a lifetime Photo
(The following “post” is taken from Tom Sears website and adapted or tweaked to bring it up to speed time wise and to make it more third person instead of first person about Tom.)
as told by Tom Sears
Black bears typically have two cubs; rarely, one or three. In 2007, in northern New Hampshire, a black bear sow gave birth to five healthy young. There were two or three reports of sows with as many as 4 cubs, but five was, and is, a very extraordinary …

US and Swedish officials aren’t talking about what have been responsible for the massive bird and fish kills in at least three different locations, but the conspiracy theory community worldwide is secretly ecstatic as the warnings they’ve been posting for decades are suddenly becoming real. Christian fundamentalists are referring to the Bible’s prediction of “fear of what is falling out of the skies.” Sites like PrarieGhost are listing incidents throughout history where everything from frogs, blood and other items have fallen out of the sky.
Prairie Ghost reports:

In 1833, something …